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Routes and roots :

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Routes and roots :

[Book]

navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures /

Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey.

Honolulu :

University of Hawai'i Press,

©2007.

1 online resource (xv, 334 pages) :

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index.

Middle passages: modernity and Creolization -- Vessels of the Pacific: an ocean in the blood -- Dead reckoning: national genealogies in Aotearoa/ New Zealand -- Adrift and unmoored: globalization and urban indigeneity -- Landfall: Carib and Arawak sedimentation.

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"Elizabeth DeLoughrey invokes the cyclical model of the continual movement and rhythm of the ocean ('tidalectics') to destabilize the national, ethnic, and even regional frameworks that have been the mainstays of literary study. The result is a privileging of alter/native epistemologies whereby island cultures are positioned where they should have been all along-at the forefront of the world historical process of transoceanic migration and landfall. The research, determination, and intellectual dexterity that infuse this nuanced and meticulous reading of Pacific and Caribbean literature invigorate and deepen our interest in and appreciation of island literature." -Vilsoni Hereniko, University of Hawai'i"Elizabeth DeLoughrey brings contemporary hybridity, diaspora, and globalization theory to bear on ideas of indigeneity to show the complexities of 'native' identities and rights and their grounded opposition as 'indigenous regionalism' to free-floating globalized cosmopolitanism. Her models are instructive for all postcolonial readers in an age of transnational migrations." -Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, AustraliaRoutes and Roots is the first comparative study of Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Taking the "tidalectic" between land and sea as a dynamic starting point, Elizabeth DeLoughrey foregrounds geography and history in her exploration of how island writers inscribe the complex relation between routes and roots. The first section looks at the sea as history in literatures of the Atlantic middle passage and Pacific Island voyaging, theorizing the transoceanic imaginary. The second section turns to the land to examine indigenous epistemologies in nation-building literatures. Both sections are particularly attentive to the ways in which the metaphors of routes and roots are gendered, exploring how masculine travelers are naturalized through their voyages across feminized lands and seas. This methodology of charting transoceanic migration and landfall helps elucidate how theories and people travel, positioning island cultures in the world historical process. In fact, DeLoughrey demonstrates how these tropical island cultures helped constitute the very metropoles that deemed them peripheral to modernity. Fresh in its ideas, original in its approach, Routes and Roots engages broadly with history, anthropology, and feminist, postcolonial, Caribbean, and Pacific literary and cultural studies. It productively traverses diaspora and indigenous studies in a way that will facilitate broader discussion between these often segregated disciplines.

JSTOR

22573/ctt62p7tr

Routes and roots.

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Caribbean literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Pacific Island literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Englisch.

Englische Literatur-- Pazifik-- Geschichte 20. Jh.

Englische Literatur-- Westindien-- Geschichte 20. Jh.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Australian & Oceanian.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- Spanish & Portuguese.

Literatur

Literatur.

Pacific Island literature.

Englisch.

Karibik

Karibik.

Ozeanien

Pazifischer Raum.

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LIT-- 004280

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LIT004100

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.,1967-

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